Greg, Thanks for that info...I'll pass it on.
Right now, we are just running a regular Exchange backup job. Jim On 6/6/07, Greg Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim, You may want to upgrade your backupexec version to 11.0 revision 7170, as there were numerous Exchange issues in 6235. Also, are your running just a regular Exchange backup, or are you running a Continuous Exchange backup job? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Blunt Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Log files not purging... Ed, Nope...I saw that in a KB article too and checked that. I'll double-check in a few minutes, but at a quick glance, all log files appeared to be continuous in number. Jim On 6/6/07, Ed Crowley [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are all the log files continuous, or is there a discontinuity in the > numbering and date? That is, is there a gap where some logs have been > deleted, but a group of older ones are sticky? > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Time Magazine's Person of the Year! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Blunt > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:39 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Log files not purging... > > Geni, > > It was not checked for this server. I checked it and did a backup...same > results. I unchecked and did a backup...same results. > > Thanks though. > > Jim > > On 6/5/07, Hawkins, Geni P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is the checkbox on the Limits tab for "do not > > delete items permanently until the store has been backed up" checked? > > If so, try un-checking it. If it isn't...well, try checking it. See > > if that changes things at all. > > > > That behavior is odd, to say the least, since the store reports a > > backup completed. Definitely dig through the backup application's own > > logs, see if it reports an incomplete on that particular store. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim > > Blunt > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:27 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Re: Log files not purging... > > > > Howard, > > > > Good question...I didn't think to check that. According to the > > properties of the store in question...6/5/2007 @ 7:52 AM. And > > yet...the log files still remain. > > > > Jim Blunt > > > > On 6/4/07, Howard Rappaport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you open up ESM and go to the database in question, view its > > > properties ... when does it show the last full backup being completed? > > > > > > If it doesn't show what you thought it was, you're probably missing > > > something in your backup software / agent. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Jim Blunt wrote: > > > > > > > Configuration: > > > > - Exchange Servers: Exchange 2003 Native, SP2 on Windows 2003, > > SP1 (x2) > > > > - Backup Server: Windows Server 2003, SP1 > > > > - Backup Software: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers > > > > (BEWS), version 11d (version 11.0, rev. 6235) > > > > > > > > Problem: > > > > I have two Exchange servers; one is the mailbox server and has > > > > ~1,000 mailboxes. The other one handles all the encryption, > > > > inbound/outbound SMTP, etc. On both servers, I am doing nightly > > > > FULL Exchange backups and telling it to flush the committed log > > > > files. I am not doing brick-level backups on either server. > > > > > > > > On the mailbox server it works just fine and the only log files on > > > > the server are the ones since the last full backup...just like you > > > > would expect. However, on the secondary server, it has 7,544 log > > > > files, totaling 36.8 GB of space. This is every transaction log > > > > file that has been created since the day I put the server into > > > > production on 3/4/2007. > > > > > > > > The backup job is green and says that it's completing just fine, > > > > yet > > > > > > the log files refuse to go away. > > > > > > > > Any ideas on why this is happening? 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